The lesson for the rest of the world is that efforts to create international institutions with real political authority are not going to succeed if they go bey ond popular willingness to yield sovereignty to remote institutions predominantly staffed by foreigners.

At the time, my then-husband and I were New Peace Corps volunteers, and we "inherited" this palace of a 19th-century minister of the bey of Tunis from Peace Corps architects who'd lived there during their service.

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"...first Allen and then Graham explained that in the outlying provinces of the Turkish empire the valis, pashas, agas and beys, though in principle subject to the Sultan, often behaved like independent rulers, increasing their territories by usurpation or by making open war upon one another..."--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 260-261